Nsight Systems 2025.1.1 Desktop-Server (x86-64|Arm SBSA) Release Announcement

Nsight Systems 2025.1.1 Desktop-Server (x86-64|Arm SBSA) Release Announcement

The latest update to NVIDIA Nsight Systems - a triage and performance analysis tool designed to track GPU workloads to their CPU origins within a system-wide view. These features help you analyze your applications’ GPU utilization, graphic and compute API activity, and OS runtime operations. This helps optimize your application to perform and scale efficiently across any quantity or size of CPUs and GPUs—from workstations to supercomputers.—is now available for download. Nsight Systems 2025.1.1 introduces several improvements aimed to enhance the profiling experience.

2025.1.1 Highlights

  • CUDA 12.8 support
  • Keep last N seconds CLI option - to retain the most relevant data when trying to record an unpredictable event, use --keep=N option with the ‘nsys stop’ command
  • Recipes
    • Summary of GPU metrics samples per range (NVTX or CUDA kernels)
  • Pytorch
    • Command-line option for enabling pytorch autograd layer NVTX ranges
    • Command-line option to trace prominent pytorch python functions
  • Windows
    • graphics resource tracker now includes resource priority changes
    • Reduced memory overhead when generating reports that contain ETW data
  • Python 3.12 support for scripts & recipes
  • Linux self-unpacking .run installer is now available for Arm64 SBSA systems
  • Preview: Multi-pass script to run all CPU counters involved in Arm Top-Down analysis

Nsight Systems is part of the powerful debugging and profiling NVIDIA Nsight Tools Suite. A developer can start with Nsight Systems for an overall system view and avoid picking less efficient optimizations based on assumptions and false-positive indicators.

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